Example sentences of "[noun prp] from the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two chief rivals for Dalmatia from the ninth century to the twelfth were the Croats and the Venetians . |
| 2 | The aim of the project is to study the issue of civil rights and individual liberties in Russia from the mid-nineteenth century to 1917 . |
| 3 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 4 | Studies of household listings reveal comparatively few three-generational homes in England from the sixteenth century onwards : a mere 5 per cent on average . |
| 5 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 6 | chart the migration history from the Indian subcontinent to Scotland from the nineteenth century to the present day ; |
| 7 | Jasper ware has been made continuously by Wedgwood from the 18th century to the present day . |
| 8 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 9 | Or can a more positive interpretation be sustained , with France emerging as a close rival to Britain from the eighteenth century onwards ? |
| 10 | At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works , now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century , when William Cookworthy , a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary , discovered kaolin , the chief ingredient of porcelain , which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years . |
| 11 | Milton adopts a classical tragic high style and models Samson to participate in Renaissance humanist parodia Christiana , the transference of Classical literary principles to Christian settings , a methodology common throughout Europe from the fifteenth century onwards especially among neo-Latin writing . |
| 12 | In Europe from the twelfth century onward , feudal society was affected by the gradual transformation of local markets into permanent towns , with important implications for the emergence of a fourth stratum . |
| 13 | Modern scholarship is beginning to bring to attention traditions of piety , particularly that of women , in Europe from the twelfth century onwards , which are significant for the understanding of medieval English mysticism . |
| 14 | The Textile Museum in the Vadianstrasse has on show a remarkable range of products made in St Gallen from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth . |
| 15 | The grid scheme of city layout with streets crossing one another at right angles and with a uniformity of street width and building design , which became the pattern for the classical world of Greece and Rome and was later adopted in Europe and modern America , was developed in Ionian Greece from the seventh century B.C. ; this street pattern is often referred to as Milesian because it is named after the city of Miletos on the coast of Asia Minor . |
| 16 | Lambeth Palace Library ( London ) The library holds registers of the archbishops of Canterbury from the thirteenth century onwards , and the archives of many societies connected with the Church of England , together with those of bishops and statesmen . |